2023 OSTB

Book recommendations for educators, librarians, parents, and guardians of the best children’s books with science content in 2022.

 
American Murderer: the Parasite That Haunted the South

American Murderer

By: Gail Jarrow
ISBN: 9781684378159 
Nonfiction, Teen, History
 
Animal Allies: 15 Amazing Women in Wildlife Research

Animal Allies

By: Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan
ISBN: 9781641606233
Nonfiction, 7-12, Teen, Science
 
Animal Sidekicks: Amazing Stories of Symbiosis in Animals and Plants

Animal Sidekicks

By: Macken Murphy
Illustrated by:
 Dragan Kordic
ISBN: 9781684492015
Nonfiction, 7-12, Animals
 
Antartica: A Melting Continent

Antartica

By: Karen Romano-Young
Illustrated by:
 Angela Hsieh
ISBN: 9781913750534
Nonfiction, 7-12, Teen, Background / Culture
 
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Monique Gray Smith
Illustrated by:
 Nicole Neidhardt
ISBN: 9781728458984
Nonfiction, Teen, How-to / Activity
 
Building

Building

By: Henry Cole
Illustrated by:
 Henry Cole
ISBN: 9780063136557
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
 
The Code Breaker — Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code

The Code Breaker — Young Readers Edition

By: Walter Isaacson
ISBN: 9781665910668
Nonfiction, 7-12, Teen, Contemporary
 
Hidden Habitats: Earth

Hidden Habitats

By: Camilla de la Bedoyere
Illustrated by:
 Lara Hawthorne
ISBN: 9781536226690
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps

How to Build a Human

By: Pamela S. Turner
Illustrated by:
 John Gurche
ISBN: 9781623542504
Nonfiction, 7-12, Teen, History
 
A Journey Under the Sea

A Journey Under the Sea

By: Craig Foster
ISBN: 9780358677864
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
 
Life in Hot Water

Life in Hot Water

By: Mary Batten
Illustrated by:
 Thomas Gonzales
ISBN: 9781682631522
Nonfiction, 7-12, Animals
 
Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions

Lion Lights

By: Richard Turere, Shelly Pollock
Illustrated by:
 Sonia Possentini
ISBN: 9780884488859
Nonfiction, K-2, 3-5, Biography / Memoir
 
Luminous: Living Things That Light Up the Night

Luminous

By: Julia Kuo
Illustrated by:
 Julia Kuo
ISBN: 9781771648882
Nonfiction, K-2, 3-5, Science
 
Moving Words About a Flower

Moving Words About a Flower

By: K. C. Hayes
Illustrated by:
 Barbara Chotiner
ISBN: 9781623541651
Fiction, K-2, Poetry
 
The Mystery of the Monarchs

The Mystery of the Monarchs

By: Barb Rosenstock
Illustrated by:
 Erika Meza
ISBN: 9781984829566
Nonfiction, K-2, Biography / Memoir
 
Narwhal: The Arctic Unicorn

Narwhal

By: Justin Anderson
Illustrated by:
 Jo Weaver
ISBN: 9781536225129
Nonfiction, K-2, Background / Culture
 
Oceanarium : Welcome to the Museum

Oceanarium

By: Loveday Trinick
Illustrated by:
 Teagan White
ISBN: 9781536223811
Nonfiction, 6-8, 9-12, Series
 
Over and Under the Waves

Over and Under the Waves

By: Kate Messner
Illustrated by:
 Christopher Silas Neal
ISBN: 9781797203478
Nonfiction, K-2, Animals
 
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals)

Queer Ducks (and Other Animals)

By: Eliot Schrefer
Illustrated by:
 Jules Zuckerberg
ISBN: 9780063069497
Nonfiction, 9-12, LGBTQIA+
 
Salmon: Swimming for Survival

Salmon

By: Rowena Rae
ISBN: 9781459826533
Nonfiction, 6-8, 9-12, Series
 
Urgent Message from a Hot Planet: Navigating the Climate Crisis

Urgent Message from a Hot Planet

By: Ann Eriksson
Illustrated by:
 Belle Wuthrich
ISBN: 9781459826328
Nonfiction, 9-12, Series
 
A Walk Through the Rain Forest

A Walk Through the Rain Forest

By: Martin Jenkins
Illustrated by:
 Vicky White
ISBN: 9781536211207
Nonfiction, 3-5, Animals
 
The Whale Who Swam Through Time: A Two-Hundred-Year Journey in the Arctic

The Whale Who Swam Through Time

By: Alex Boersma, Nick Pyenson
Illustrated by:
 Alex Boersma
ISBN: 9781250803023
Nonfiction, K-2, Science
 
The Woman Who Split the Atom

The Woman Who Split the Atom

By: Marissa Moss
ISBN: 9781419758539
Nonfiction, 6-8, 9-12, Science
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